south wind into my arms

Chapter 98 Running
Lu Sheng returned to the team after his vacation, and after a few days, Ning Xia also came back.

Ningxia and Ai Xiaomei's doubles performance is good, and the points ranking has been rising all the way. This year, they have the opportunity to compete in the Australian Open.As a Grand Slam rookie, I don't expect to achieve any results, the main thing is to participate.

In fact, just the point of "participation" makes many people envious.That's a grand slam after all.

Lu Sheng is also one of many admirers.She looked at her WTA ranking, well, she was less than a hundred places away from qualifying for the Grand Slam.

There are only a few dozen, why not try harder!

At this time, Lu Sheng suddenly discovered that she had become a fool when she was in love, she was floating in the clouds every day, she was not nervous at all, and she would have a chance to hit the grand slam if she worked harder, but what was she thinking all day long? ah?

What a fool!

Looking at the dusty Ningxia at this moment, Lu Sheng secretly made a plan for himself.

The short-term goal is to raise my ranking to a level where I can qualify for the Grand Slam.

Among the four Grand Slams, the Australian Open is almost over, and this year there are still French Open in May, Wimbledon in July, and US Open in August.Lu Sheng felt that it was a little too late for him to go to the French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open should be good.And there is another advantage of the US Open, that is, its qualifying rounds have more draws than other Grand Slams.

Another reason why I don't want to have too much hope for the French Open and Wimbledon is that the venues of these two games are clay and grass, both of which Lu Sheng is not familiar with.She most often plays on hard courts, the most common type of surface in tennis.

In summary, she temporarily targeted the US Open.

For other competitions this year, from low-level ITF competitions to higher-level WTA competitions, Lu Sheng made a picky schedule, playing a few more games for low-level competitions, and high-level competitions may not be enough for qualifications, even if they are enough Participation is also important, anyway, let's compete more with the masters.

She showed Xu Zhiyao the schedule and asked how he was doing.

Xu Zhiyao: "Not bad."

Lu Sheng asked, "What about you?"

"What am I?"

"Aren't you going to hit a grand slam?"

"not going to."

"Eh..." Lu Sheng didn't expect him to answer so simply.

Xu Zhiyao's current ATP ranking is over 8874, which is much worse than Lu Sheng.It cannot be said that Xu Zhiyao is inferior to Lu Sheng, because ATP and WTA are completely different situations.According to the statistics of the International Tennis Federation last year, the number of male professional players in the world is 3896, and the number of female professional players is [-]. That is to say, the number of male players is more than twice that of women.

The number of draws for men's singles and women's singles in the Grand Slam is 128.Except for the US Open, which has the same number of men's singles and women's singles draws, the men's singles are more than women's singles in the other three Grand Slams, but only more than 30 more.

This means that men's tennis is much more competitive than women's.

That's why Xu Zhiyao didn't go to Xiao Xiang Grand Slam.He was leisurely and careless, but Lu Sheng felt a little pity for him.She said, "I think you still have hope. You played a little less games last year. If you play more games this year, your ranking will definitely rise."

"I don't want to play Grand Slam." Xu Zhiyao replied.

"Why?" Lu Sheng obviously didn't believe it, "Is there any player who doesn't want to play a Grand Slam?"

"Grand Slam is five sets and three wins..." Xu Zhiyao said blankly.

Lu Sheng understood in seconds.

The fans said that Xu Zhiyao's "physical strength is not good", it is not a joke, it is the truth.Xu Zhiyao didn't train hard before, and he didn't have a solid foundation of physical fitness. After a long game, he would easily show fatigue.His fans even advised him to play women's tennis...

A normal game is a best-of-three set, and he can handle it fairly well, but a grand slam wins three sets out of five, sounds scary, okay?

Xu Zhiyao looked at Lu Sheng seriously, and said, "I will never play a Grand Slam in my life."

Lu Sheng was full of regret, "Isn't the Grand Slam the goal of every player? You really don't want to play?"

"Would you believe me when I said that I want to play mixed doubles the most?"

"Do not believe."

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. Junior sister, I think we will be able to kill the Quartet in the future." Xu Zhiyao's confidence in the mixed doubles completely blew his confidence in himself.

Lu Sheng held his face in his hands, still thinking about the Grand Slam, "Then let's go to the Grand Slam to play mixed doubles in the future?"

"Okay, that's a bit far away, let's conquer the Asian Games first."

Yes, the Asian Games.

This year is the year of the Asian Games. Lu Sheng and Xu Zhiyao were selected for the national team training because of their outstanding mixed doubles results in the National Games last year.In name it is a training camp, but in fact most of them are still practicing individually. After all, tennis is so professional, and there are various competitions one after another, and everyone is very busy.For the training camp, the singles players are hardly affected, and the men's doubles and women's doubles are not affected much, because these players have been trained in continuous competitions regardless of singles or doubles. more valuable.

Only mixed doubles is special.You can say that mixed doubles is not mainstream, but it can be seen in the most mainstream competitions - Olympic Games, the Four Grand Slams, these top events have mixed doubles; but it is mainstream, the four major All professional events below the Grand Slam have forgotten it.

There is no point ranking for mixed doubles. The mixed doubles registration for the four Grand Slams is calculated based on the sum of the points of both men and women.

Therefore, Lu Sheng and Xu Zhiyao's mixed doubles had no chance of actual combat training at all.The two can only practice on their own, and for the sake of national honor, they must ensure enough training.

For this reason, the schedule of the two of them must have been reduced, not as full as usual.Lu Sheng's schedule was carefully determined in order to meet the needs of mixed doubles training and scoring points at the same time.

Lu Sheng played two consecutive 10K matches after the year, and won the championship smoothly.It is not unusual for her to win the championship in such a level of competition. What is strange is that Lu Sheng's style of play has changed a bit.Her previous game was relatively gentle and dense, but for some reason this year, she played very aggressively at the beginning of the year. Some fans used "full aggressiveness" to describe her state in these two games.Many people thought that she was adjusting her strategy on purpose, but only Lu Sheng knew that she had vented all her anger of broken love on the court.

Well, it works well.

How about "frustrated in love and proud of the court", that's right.

Lu Sheng fills his life with training every day, vents his emotions with games, and lives a very fulfilling life.Afterwards, she went to Taipei to play 50K again, and accidentally won the championship, went to Japan to play 75K, accidentally reached the semi-finals, went to Singapore to play 100K, and accidentally reached the semi-finals.

With all the points added up, they broke into the top [-].

This ranking is enough to qualify for the US Open.

But she dare not take it lightly, because the WTA ranking only counts the points of the past year. If she does not play at this point, the points will drop after a long time, and the ranking will drop.

Since then, until the start of the US Open, she has played several ITF events, with good records.

Some domestic media noticed Lu Sheng's abnormality, and some reporters used "crazy harvester" to describe her situation of collecting points in the first half of the year.

Lu Sheng felt that this statement was a bit exaggerated.Many people do this, but she is more well-known and has more attention, so it is easy to discuss anything she does.

Alas, the troubles of celebrities.

The last ITF event was played in China. After Lu Sheng won the championship, a reporter interviewed her and mentioned the issue of her breaking up with Nanfeng.

Lu Sheng had been silent on this matter before, but this time, to the reporter's surprise, she answered directly.

"Yes, we have broken up."

"May I ask what caused you to break up?"

"personality clashes?"

"Are there other factors, like how much time you put into training games?"

"No, it's just a personality mismatch."

"Is it related to Xu Zhiyao?"

"It's nothing, don't talk nonsense."

"It's been rumored on the Internet that you and Xu Zhiyao are together."

"Do you believe the rumors on the Internet?"

"Uh, so would you consider starting a new relationship?"

"It depends."

"Is it possible?"

"Ah."

The reporter went back and wrote a report: "Lu Sheng admits that he has broken up with Nanfeng and will consider a new relationship".

The report reviewed Lu Sheng's achievements in the past six months, gossiping about her private life, admitting the breakup, denying the ambiguity with Xu Zhiyao... Generally speaking, it is considered objective.

Nanfeng quickly saw the newspaper.He would never miss any reports about Lu Sheng.

He and Lu Sheng haven't seen each other for several months since they broke up on New Year's Eve.Regarding Lu Sheng, Nanfeng read it from the newspaper or heard it from Li Weiguo.

Even though he couldn't see her, his eyes kept following her.

But how long can he chase it?
Nanfeng looked at Lu Sheng's bright smiling face in the newspaper, and he also smiled.

His girl is getting more and more confident.

However, it was getting farther and farther away from him.

He was still standing where he was, and she was already running forward without any scruples, running faster and further away.Probably one day, it will be too far away for him to see.

Obviously he was the one who pushed her forward, and he should be happy to see this happen... But why is he so sad.

(End of this chapter)